By I. Thatcher
ISBN-10: 1403998981
ISBN-13: 9781403998989
This can be a stimulating and hugely unique selection of essays from a staff of the world over popular specialists. The participants reinterpret key matters and debates, together with political, social, cultural and foreign elements of the Russian revolution stretching from the past due imperial interval into the early Soviet kingdom. With a specific emphasis on historiography, this can be crucial studying for an figuring out of the riding forces of the revolution, of the function of people comparable to Lenin and Trotsky in addition to the wider social and political panorama, and the impression the revolution had at the wider international.
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249. The assassin, Fedorov, was under the impression that he was killing a ‘reactionary’, for so he had been told by Kazantsev, the URP activist who hired him for 1000 roubles; those responsible were eventually pardoned by the tsar. V. Kozhinov attempts to justify these murders on the grounds that as Jews the victims were allegedly negligent of Russia’s true interests. Kozhinov, ‘Chernosotentsy’ i revolyutsiya, pp. 75–6; cf. Rawson, Russian Rightists, p. 134. Kozhinov, ‘Chernosotentsy’, p. 105, citing Stepanov, Chernaya sotnya, pp.
29. Geifman, TSK, p. 141; A. ), Russia under the Last Tsar, p. 101. 30. H. Avrich, The Russian Anarchists (Princeton, 1967) was first in this field and is informative if somewhat indulgent; but see now Geifman, ‘The Anarchists …’ , John Keep 35 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. pp. 93–110 (also in Geifman, TSK, pp. 123–53); Budnitsky, Terrorizm, pp. ), Polit. partii, pp. V. P. Sviridenko et al. (eds), Politicheskie partii Rossii: istoriya i sovremennost’ (Moscow, 2000), pp.
Geifman, TSK, p. 135. V. Shelokhaev et al. (eds), Anarkhisty: dokumenty i materialy, vol. I, 1883–1916 gg. (Moscow, 1998), pp. 167, 630. M. Erdelevsky (a former SD), seems to have escaped unharmed. Laqueur, History, p. 42. Geifman, ‘The Anarchists …’, p. 99. A. C. Rawson, Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905 (Cambridge, 1995). A. ), Russia under the Last Tsar, p. 204. , pp. 199–213. H. Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Basingstoke, 1986), pp. 214–15. Rawson, Russian Rightists, pp.
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